Judge Amy Berman Jackson issued the reprieve to Special Counsel Hampton Dellinger, after he sued to contest the Friday night email he received from the White House indicating he’d been dismissed ...

The White House did not immediately respond to a request for comment. Trump fired Dellinger, a Joe Biden appointee, on Feb. 7, but he sued and was temporarily reinstated.

Dellinger’s case has played out in parallel to lawsuits by two other federal watchdogs Trump has tried to fire: Gwynne Wilcox, a member of the National Labor Relations Board, and Cathy A. Harris ...

Appeals court explains why it concluded Trump may fire Dellinger. A brief order allowed President Donald Trump to remove Hampton Dellinger, head of the Office of Special Counsel, while litigation ...

Dellinger continued to take numerous actions under the scope of his former role while the legal battle over his firing played out. He petitioned against the Trump administration's recent mass ...

Dellinger on Friday evening received a one-sentence email from the White House that said: “On behalf of President Donald J. Trump, I am writing to inform you that your position as Special ...

Dellinger: Well, I'm not a legal scholar, I'm a lawyer. But I do know that every other branch of government has checks and balances. In the legislative branch, in Congress, you've got the House ...

Dellinger, whose term was supposed to run into 2029, learned he'd been fired via email. "And, of course, that email is just flatly inconsistent with the law, which says I can only be terminated ...

The director of the White House Presidential Personnel Office fired Dellinger on February 7 in a brief email that cited none of those for-cause requirements, court records show.

The Supreme Court on Friday dashed President Donald Trump’s plan to immediately fire the head of an independent agency that investigates whistleblower claims, allowing Hampton Dellinger to ...